Arts and Entertainment Archive

Bands like Terminus make me wish I had taken up an instrument much earlier in life. I was initially pretty impressed by their self-titled debut, and even more so when I found out that at the time of its release (October last …

Once again, the Biennale has taken over Sydney, adding hyper-excitement, colour and zing to a number of venues around our already zinging, parti-coloured city. The 2014 Biennale curator, Juliana Engberg, has situated what she terms the festival’s more “liminal, libidinous and liquious” …

Baz Luhrmann sauntered into the rehearsal room at Carriageworks on February 25 quipping over his shoulder “ I thought you said a couple of friends Bruce”. The joke was aimed at his publicist Bruce Pollack but the real targets were the close …

Possessions, the original ‘girl road story’, heads for Sydney’s King Street Theatre on March 27, following an acclaimed premiere season in Boston USA. Thelma and Louise meets Dangerous Liaisons, this thought-provoking new play is conceived, written and performed by Jane Bergeron and Carrie Ann Quinn and presented by the …

Italians are responsible for quite a few of my favourite things: sumptuous wines, indulgent cuisine and eminent suits. With their debut album, Awaken, Amouth have proved Italians are also pretty damn good at writing post metal. Awaken certainly is an interesting beast. …

Sydney’s short play festival, Short + Sweet, is reaching its climax this weekend with two gala finals on March 21 and 22 at the Seymour Centre York Theatre. Now in its 13th year, the festival has spread to 40 other cities including …

Like most metalheads, I love a good guitar solo. No matter whether it’s death, black, progressive, post, sludge or folk, I’d call it a hallmark of the genre. What I dislike is self-indulgent playing that serves only to showcase a musician’s technical …

Darlinghurst Theatre Company and O’Punksky’s Theatre present one of the great Irish plays of the last century. The Gigli Concert by Tom Murphy will preview from 4 April and open on 8 April at the Eternity Playhouse. Widely considered to be Murphy’s …

Last night Sydney enjoyed another fabulous Mardi Gras parade despite the threat of rain. The 36th parade, under the theme Kaleidoscope, roared to life in its customary spectacular fashion with the Dykes on Bikes convoy and featured a giant puppet of Russian …

Outside it was a grey, hostile, traffic snarled, drizzly Sydney evening but here in the City Recital Centre it was warm, golden and all at peace. I felt all my angst, peak hour jitters and parking station traumas drop away like moldy …